Differences, nuances and agreement marked the outcome of a session today between former USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan representing the Clinton campaign and Sam Clovis on the Trump campaign team. Clinton versus Trump on Agriculture Differences, nuances and agreement marked the outcome of a session today between former USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan representing the Clinton campaign and Sam Clovis on the Trump campaign team.TPP: The Obama administration still believes that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be approved in the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress, and apparently so does the Clinton campaign. Merrigan expressed some concerns about the deal’s details, but she assured an agriculture audience that tra...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.